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Louise Fox, and Ragnar Götestam

Social Protection Discussion Paper Series, No.0311
The World Bank, 2003

".......How can countries develop the new programs in an affordable manner? How should they change the financing flows to support the new options, without putting the burden of financing on the vulnerable themselves? The objective of this paper is to provide a framework to help countries re-orient their financing systems for social care. The paper first reviews key concepts in social care financing and then applies them to the problem of changing social care models in ECA countries...."

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